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Environment

‘Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered a speech during the opening of COP15 [Christinne Muschi/Reuters]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed multinational corporations for turning the world’s ecosystems into “playthings of profit” and warned failure to correct course would lead to catastrophic results.

“With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,” he said at the ceremonial opening of talks on biodiversity in Montreal on Tuesday.

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